Yayoi Kusama

YAYOI KUSAMA

Born on March 22nd in Matsumoto-shi, Nagano-ken, Japan

Entered senior class at the Kyoto Municipal School of Arts & Crafts

Studied at the Arts and Crafts School, Kyoto

In November, moved to America; lived in Seattle

Studied at the Art Students' League, New York

Immigrated to the United States

Granted permanent residence status in the United States; naturalized 1966

Returned to Japan

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Yayoi Kusama, travelling exhibition: Tate Modern, London, January - May 2012, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, June - September 2012

Yayoi Kusama, travelling exhibition: Museo Centro de Arte, Reina Sofia, Madrid, 10 May - 18 September 2011, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 19 November 2011 - 9 January 2012.

Yayoi Kusama, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia

Yayoi Kusama: Mirrored Years, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia

Yayoi Kusam: Mirrored Years, City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand

Yayoi Kusama, Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Nagano, Japan

Yayoi Kusama: Mirrored Years, Museums Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Yayoi Kusama: Dots Obsession, la Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris

Yayoi Kusama, Dots Obsession, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany / WIELS, Brussel, Belgium

Yayoi Kusama, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Yayoi Kusama's Avant-Garde Fashion, Sofitel, Melbourne

Yayoi Kusama Infinity Nets 2006, MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka, Japan

Yayoi Kusama, Iwami Art Museum, Shimane, Japan

Yayoi Kusama, Sakima Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan

YAYOI in FOREVER: Forever Museum of Contemporary Art gallery, Akita, Japan

Yayoi Kusama Metamorphosis, Galleria Civica Modena, Italy

Yayoi Kusama, Arndt&Partner, Berlin

Yayoi Kusama, Robert Miller Gallery, New York

Yayoi Kusama: Eternity-Modernity, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto

Yayoi Kusama: Dots Obsession, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Yayoi Kusama: Eight Places for Burning Soul, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima

Yayoi Kusama: Sailing the Sea of Infinity, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto

Yayoi Kusama: The Place for My Soul, Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Nagano

Yayoi Kusama ka!: 100 Tonson Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand

Yayoi Kusama Seoul: Jean Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Kusamatrix, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

Kusama Yayoi Avant-Garde Fashion Show, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

Yayoi Kusama, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland

Kusamatrix, Art Park Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo Art Park, Hokkaido

Yayoi Kusama: Eternity-Modernity, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

Yayoi Kusama: Colorist, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo

Yayoi Kusama, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum, Kagawa

Yayoi Kusama, Kushiro Art Museum, Hokkaido

Yayoi Kusama, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany

Yayoi Kusama: Installation, Kunsthalle Wien, Austria

Yayoi Kusama, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Death of an Illusion, Piece Unique, Paris, France

Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Sekiryu, Nagano Prefectural

Yayoi Kusama, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo

Eyes of Shuzo, Takiguchi Nizayamz Forest Art Museum, Toyama

Studio Guenzani, Milano

Yayoi Kusama, Serpentine Gallery , London

Yayoi Kusama, Piece Unique, Paris

Yayoi Kusama Prints, Mubanso, Nagano

Yayoi Kusama Silkscreen-Lame, Museum Haus Kasuya, Kanagawa

Yayoi Kusama: Recent Works, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo

Yayoi Kusama, Za Gallery, Fukuoka

Yayoi Kusama Prints, Collage Toki no Wasuremono, Tokyo

Yayoi Kusama, Jean Gallery, Seoul

Yayoi Kusama "Le consortium” (Dijon),traveled to Maison de la culture du Japon, Paris (13 Feb.-19 May,2001), Kunstallen Brandts Kldefabrik (Denmark, 12 Jun.-), Le Abattoirs (Toulouse, 5 Oct.2001-6 Jan.2002)

Yayoi Kusama Pumpkins Oka-shorin, Nagano

Love Forever : YAYOI KUSAMA 1958-1968, In Full Bloom: YAYOI KUSAMA, Years in Japan, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

Beyond My Illusion, MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka

The 7th Yayoi Kusama exhibition, Bunkamura Gallery,Tokyo

Yayoi Kusama Prints, Galerie 412, Tokyo

Yayoi Kusama, Gallery NOW, Toyama
Yayoi Kusama Screenprints-Pumpkin 1992 1993 1998- ZaGallery,Tokyo

Yayoi Kusama, Crown Art Center, Taipei

Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Pierre, Taichung

Where am I ? Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo

Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Paris, Yokohama

Messege from Yayoi Kusama, Matsumoto Municipal Museum, Nagano Prefectural

Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Sekiryu, Nagano

Yayoi Kusama, Mubanso, Nagano

Yayoi Kusama Screenprints-Pumpkin 1992 1993 1998, ZA GALLERY, Tokyo

Yayoi Kusama Prints, Toki no Wasuremono, Tokyo

"Love Forever : YAYOI KUSAMA 1958-1968" , Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA

Yayoi Kusama, Etching Gallery NOW, Toyama

Yayoi Kusama Self Obliteration, MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka

Yayoi Kusama, Prints Gallery Goto, Tokyo

Yayoi Kusama '50-'70s ,Taka Ishii Gallery, Santa Monica, California, USA

Yayoi Kusama NOW, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA

Yayoi Kusama Works from the '50s, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, USA

Yayoi Kusama Recent oil Painting, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo

"Love Forever : YAYOI KUSAMA 1958-1968" , The Museum Modern Art, New York, USA

Yayoi Kusama, Komagane kogen Art Museum, Nagano

Yayoi Kusama Prints, Toki no Wasuremono, Tokyo

Yayoi Kusama, Baumgartner Galleries Inc., Washington, USA

Yayoi Kusama, Kato Kyobundo, Osaka

Yayoi Kusama, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, USA

Yayoi Kusama-Prints, Gallery Olive, Tokyo

Yayoi Kusama: Kusama's Kusama, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo

Yayoi Kusama, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

A Panorama of My Youth, MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka Prefecture

Yayoi Kusama, The 1950s and 1960s, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA

Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Olive , Tokyo

Yayoi Kusama : 10 Paintings from 60's to the Present, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo

Yayoi Kusama, Ouka Shorin, Nagano

Yayoi Kusama Recent Works, Robert Miller Gallery, New York

Yayoi Kusama Gallery HARUKA, Tokyo

Repetition, Art Gallery Artium, Fukuoka

Photo Collage Repetitive Vision MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka

Yayoi Kusama, Gallery KURA, Matsumoto

Yayoi Kusama : I who committed Suicide, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo

Recent Prints~Memorial Shot , Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo

Yayoi Kusama ,YU Contemporary Art, Yokohama

Yayoi Kusama, Gallery KURA, Matsumoto,Japan

Yayoi Kusama, Atelier KAN Gallery, Tokyo

Yayoi Kusama, Komagane Kogen Art Museum, Nagano

Yayoi Kusama, Nagano Prefectual Shinano Art Museum

Yayoi Kusama, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo

Yayoi Kusama My Solitary Way to Death, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo

Yayoi Kusama, Orient Gallery, Tokyo

Yayoi Kusama ,Takashimaya Department store,Okayama Art Gallery

Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Art Wing, Kanagawa

Yayoi Kusama, Chiyoda Gallery, Shizuoka

Yayoi Kusama 1970s~Recent Works, Gallery Now, Toyama

Yayoi Kusama, MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka

Yayoi Kusama The 45th Venice Biennale

Yayoi Kusama, Galleria Finarte, Nagaya

HAM Collection Yayoi Kusama 1952-1993, Gallery HAM, Nagoya

Yayoi Kusama, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo

Yayoi Kusama, Galleria Valentina Moncada, Roma, Italy

Yayoi Kusama, Galleria d'Arte del Naviglio, Venice, Italy

Yayoi Kusama, Shuyu Gallery, Tokyo

Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Now, Toyama

Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Tomita, Hiroshima

Yayoi Kusama, Art Gallery K2, Tokyo

Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Aries, Tokyo

Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Mominoki, Tochigi

Yayoi Kusama, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo

Yayoi Kusama, MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka

Yayoi Kusama, YU Contemporary Art, Kanagawa

Bursting Galaxies, The Sogetsu Art Museum, Japan

Yayoi Kusama, Gallery LAMIA, Tokyo

Bursting Galaxies, Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata

Yayoi Kusama 1953-1990, Art Gallery K2, Tokyo

Yayoi Kusama, MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka

Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Vinci, Gunma

Yayoi Kusama, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo

Yayoi Kusama: Between Heaven and Earth, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo

Yayoi Kusama: Paintings Prints Objects, Oka Shorin, Nagano

Yayoi Kusama, Gallery LAMIA, Tokyo

Yayoi Kusama, YU Contemporary Art, Kanagawa

Prints: Yayoi Kusama, Art Space Ashibisha, Saitama

Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Athens, Osaka

Yayoi Kusama, Gallery KURA, Nagano

Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Kyouni, Tokyou

Yayoi Kusama, Chikugo Gallery, Kurume,Fukuoka

Yayoi Kusama: Recent Prints, Objects, Paintings Gallery Ikeda Bijutsu, Tokyo

Yayoi Kusama Gallery KURA, Nagano

Yayoi Kusama: Retrospective, Center for International Contemporary Arts, New York, USA

Soul Burning Flash, The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK

Yayoi Kusama: Soul Burning Flashes, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo

Yayoi Kusama: Soul Burning Flashes, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo

Yayoi Kusama: Soul Burning Flashes, Hakone Open-Air Museum, Kanagawa

Yayoi Kusama, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka

Yayoi Kusama, Musee Municipal de Dole

Prints by Yayoi Kusama, Tamagawa Takashimaya Department Store, Tokyo

Infinity Explosion, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo

Yayoi Kusama, Musee des Beaux-Arts de Calais, France

Yayoi Kusama, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo

Yayoi Kusama, Tsubaki Gallery, Chiba

Yayoi Kusama: Encounter of Souls, Jardin de Luseine, Harajuku, Tokyo

Yayoi Kusama, Supplement Gallery, Tokyo

Kusama's Self-Obliteration (Performance), Video Gallery Scan, Tokyo

Yayoi Kusama: Prints and Drawings (on shikishi boards), Gallery do ra pe, Kobe

Yayoi Kusama, Gallery KURA, Nagano

Yayoi Kusama, Books Rokusan, Nagano

Yayoi Kusama, Box Gallery, Nagoya

Obsession Yayoi Kusama, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo

Box Art by Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Kumo, Tokyo

Yayoi Kusama, Gallery Manu, Akita

Yayoi Kusama, Orient Gallery, Tokyo

Yayoi Kusama, Galleria del Navigrio, Milano, Italy
Yayoi Kusama, Central Gallery, Chiba

The Puzzle Art of Yayoi Kusama, Shibuya Seibu Department Store, Tokyo

Yayoi Kusama, Toho Gallery, Osaka

Unknown Works by Yayoi Kusama: The Flash That Burns Grass, American Center, Tokyo

Yayoi Kusama: Self obliteration of Nets and polka Dots, Gallery Toshin, Tokyo

Yayoi Kusama Soaring from the Dark and Bright Swamp, Nagano Tokyu Department

Store, Nagano

Yayoi Kusama: Infinity and Repetition of Nets and polka Dots, Gallery Toshin, Tokyo

Yayoi Kusama: Exhibition of New Works, Inoue Department Store Fourth Floor Gallery, Nagano

Yayoi Kusama: Obsessional Art, a Requiem for Death and Life, Osaka Formes Gallery, Tokyo

Message of Death from Hades, Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo

Mickery Gallery, Holland

Lichter Gallery, Germany

Love Room Internationale, Galerij Orez, Hague

Driving Image Show, Naviglio Gallery,Milan, Italy

Kusama's Peep Show/ Endless Love Show, R. Castellane Gallery, New York, USA

Driving Image Show, M.E. Thelen Gallery, Essen, Germany

New Collection, Chrysler Museum, Provincetown, USA

Internationale, Galerij Orez, Hague

Floor Show, R. Castellane Gallery, New York, USA

R. Castellane Gallery, New York, USA

Gertrude Stein Gallery, New York USA

Robert Hanamura Gallery, Chicago, USA

Stephen Radich Gallery , New York USA

Avant-garde 61, Stadtisches Museum in Trier, West Germany

Gres Gallery, Washington, D.C. USA

Monochrome, Malerei Stadtisches Museum in Leverkusen, Germany

Gres Gallery, Washington,D.C. USA

Nova Gallery, Boston USA

Brata Gallery, New York, USA

Zoe Dusanne Gallery,Seattle USA

Takemiya Gallery, Tokyo

Kyuryu-do Gallery, Tokyo

Shiroki-ya, Tokyo

Mimatsu-Shobo Gallery, Tokyo

The First Community Center, Matsumoto, Japan

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

17^th Biennale of Sydney, The Beauty of Distance: songs of survival in a precarious age, Director: David Elliot

Beautiful New World: Contemporary Visual Culture from Japan, Long March Project, "798" Dashanzi Art District, Beijing, China

Rose Art: Works from the Permanent Collection, The Rose Art Museum, Massachusetts, USA

NAOSHIMA STANDARD 2, Benesse Art Site Naoshima, Kagawa, Japan

Vision II, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan

Line and Surface Works on Paper, Peter Blum Gallery, New York

Tokyo-Berlin/Berlin-Tokyo, Mori Museum, Tokyo

Part object Part sculpture, Wexner Center of the Arts, Gallery C, Ohio

ZERO. International Avant-garde of the 50's and 60's, museum kunst palast, Dusseldorf, Germany

Singapore Biennale

Art and Object: Affinity of the Jomon and the Contemporary, Aomori Art of Art, Aomori, Japan

IDOL!, Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan

Naoshima Standard Exhibition, Benesse Art Site Naoshima, Kagawa, Japan

Crimson Eye, Piece Unique, Paris

Collage and Photomontage, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo

Real Utopia Stories of the Unlimited, 21st Century Museum of Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan

Bienal de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

Yayoi Kusama: Paintings, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA

2004 Whitney Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA

Remaking Modernism in Japan 1900-2000, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

The University Art Museum - Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo

And or Versus?: Adventures in Images, Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa

Why not live for art?, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo

ECHIGO-TSUMARI ART TRIENNIAL2003,  Echigo-tsumari, Niigata

Happiness, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

Lille 2004 European Capital of Culture, Lille, France

Asia-Pacific Triennial 2002, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia

Century City, Tate Modern, London

les annees Pop, Centre Pompidou, Paris

Collaborations with Parkett 1984 to Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Parkett Artists' Editions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Global Visions- Art after 1980 from the Museum Collections, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

Louise Bourgeois Yayoi Kusama Works from 1942 to 2000, Peter Blum, New York

Works on Paper from Acconci to Zittel, Victoria Miro Gallery, London

Box Art, Rias Ark Museum of Art, Miyagi

Yayoi Kusama Prints, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo

International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Yokohama 2001, Pacifico Yokohama Convention Hall, Red Brick Warehause No.1

Selections from the Hara Museum's Permanent Collection, Hara Museum ARC (Gunma)

New year art, Gallery Now, Toyama

Group exhibition, ATC Museum, Osaka

Vacant Lot , Toyota Municipal Museum of Art

Art Buffet-Selections from the Hara Museum's Permanent Collection, Hara Museum Arc, Gunma

Group exhibition, Gallery HAM, Nagaya

Group exhibition, Gallery Sekiryu, Nagano

Permanent Collection, Nigata City Art Museum

The Permanent Exhibition, Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Takamatsu

Group exhibition, Niigata City Art Museum

Group exhibition, SK Gallery,Tokyo

Work on Paper exhibition, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo

Biennale of Sydney 2000

Group exhibition, Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo

Japanese Art in the 20th Century, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

Cultural Ties, Jariwara West zone Gallery, London, UK

Hyper Mental, Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland

The permanent exhibition, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo

Contemporary Art Lessons, Akita Senshu Museum of Art

Out of Action 1949-1979 Between Performance and Object , Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

50's-60's WORKS , Takeda Bijustu, Tokyo

Narrative Art from the Collection, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts

Contemporary Classism , Neuberger Museum of Art , Westchester County, New York, USA

Group exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama

Visions of the Body: Fashion or Invisible Corset , The National Museum of modern Art, Kyoto

The Balloon Art Festival, Granship Sizuoka Convention & Arts Center

France-Japan L'art sans frontier, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo
Yayoi Kusama and Andy Warhol, Toki no Wasuremono, Tokyo

Group exhibition, Niigata City Art Museum

Summer Collection, 77 Gallery, Tokyo

Japanese contemporary prints vol.6, Art Box Gallery, Tokyo

Xmas with ART '99, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo

Art Jungle, The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama

Artists Exhibition Toho Gallery, Tokyo

Tensions Robert Miller Gallery, New York

Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism and Self-Representation , MIT List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts, USA

Group exhibition,Toki no Wasuremono, Tokyo

1998 Taipei Biennial: Site of Desire, Taipei Fine Arts Museum

Contemporary Japanese Prints Vol.5, ART BOX GALLERY, Tokyo

Now and Forever Part 1, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

wakuwaku! dokidoki! Summer Museum!!, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama

Art/Ecosystem The Contemporary Japanese Art Scene, Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Tochigi

To and From Shuzo Takiguchi , The National Museum of Art, Osaka

Towards Another Normality , Hara Museum ARC, Gunma

Art Now in Japan and Korea Between the Unkown Straits, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo,
travelled to National Museum of Art, Osaka, The Botanical Garden of Fantasy The Hiratsukaka Museum of Art, Silkscreens Gallery Yume, Tokyo, Taipei Art fair International When East Meets West Taipei World Trade Center , Works of Kihachi Kimura print studio GORAKU GALLERY, Tokyo

New Collections, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama

The Maximal Sixties, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

NHK Heart Exhibition, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo

De-Genderism, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo

Japan Today, MAK-Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Wien, Austria

Exhibition by Three Women Artists from Shinshu(Nagano Prefecture) Suzaka Prints Museum (Nagano)

Exhibition of Works in Permanent Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama

Contemporary Art : How Can They Possibly Understand It , Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo

Flotiong Images of Woman in Art History, Tochigi Prefectual Museum of Fine Art

Japanese Sumer 1960-64, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki

Prints, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo

Group exhibition, Bunkamura Gallery

With drawing, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Inc., New York

1964 : A Turning Point in Japanese Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

Collection in Focus: Selected drawing, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

Exhibition of 50 Contemporary Japanese Artists, Nabio Museum of Art, Osaka

Drawing Internationa,l Galerie A / Harry Ruhe, Amsterdam

GEKIand GEKI : Art Then Art Now, Hara Museum ARC, Gunma Prefecture

The 31st 'Artist Today' Exhibition, Yokohama Citizens' Gallery

Inside of Works, Outside of Works, Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo

Art of Postwar 1960s Avant-Garde, Kurashiki Municipal Art Museum, Okayama Prefecture

Art at Home, Ideal Standard Life Spiral Garden, Tokyo

Now Here, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark

A Decade of an Avantgarde Artists, Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo

Shedding Light on Art in Japan 1953, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo

Materials and Forms, Nine Artists' Attitudes, Ibaraki Prefectural Museum of Modern Art

Form Beyond Forms 16 abstract paintings in Japan, Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art

New Collection of Commissions on the theme 'Hiroshima' , Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art

New Installations, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, USA

Art on a Diet, JR Osaka Selvis Gallery

Exhibition of Portraits, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo

Art on a Diet, Gallery Seira, Tokyo

Narcissistic Disturbance, Otis Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

ARS 95 HELSINKI, Museum of Contemporary Art ,Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki, Finland

Group Show, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Inc., New York, USA

Hyogo Aid '95 by Art Art Charity Bazar, Gallery Dorape

Auguries of the 21st Century -Prints, Hillside Gallery, Tokyo

View of Contemporary Prints, Niigata City Art Museum

Japanese Culture : The Fifty post War Years , Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo

Exhibition of Permanent Collection, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo

Minimal Form, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo

About Lines : Non-existing Modaernism and Invisible Realism, Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo

Japanese Culture : The Fifty post War Years, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art

Japanese Culture : The Fifty post War Years, Hyogo Prefectual Museum of Modern Art, Kobe

Summer Collection, Touho Gallery (Tokyo)

A Technique of Contemporary Art (1), Collage Nerima Museum of Art, Tokyo

Revolution: Art of The Sixties From Warhol to Beuys, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

Japanese Culture : The Fifty post War Years, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka Prefecture

ARCADIA Group Show, Gallery Isogaya, Tokyo

Contemporary Art from the Museum Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

Imagery Forest Inazawa City Ogisu Memorial Museum of Art, Aichi

Kanagawa International Prints Festival, Kanagawa Prefectual Hall

Prints, Ota Fine Arts (Tokyo)

50 Artist / 50 Works, Satani Gallery, Tokyo

Yayoi Kusama Etchings, 77Gallery, Tokyo

Hyogo Aid '95 by Art Ban Gallery, Osaka, December

Cross and Square Grids, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama

Japanese Art after 1945:Scream Against the Sky, Yokohama Art Museum

When the Body Becomes Art, Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo

Very Special Art, The Ueno Royal Museum

Very Special Art, The Hakone Open-Air Musem

Japanese Self-Portrait, Mitaka Cty Gallery of Art,Tokyo

aspects(1979-1994), Hara Museum ARC (Gunma, Japan)

Out of Bounds, Benesse House Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum

Museum City Tenjin '94, Super Suburb

Japan Today, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Helsinki, Denmark, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway, Waino Aaltosen Museo, Turku, Finland, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm

Contemporary Art from the Museum Collection, Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata

Vision, Illusion, and Anti-illusion from the Museum Collection, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum

Art from US, Landmark Hall (Yokohama)

Japanese Outsider Art: Inhabitants of Another World, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo

Adam & Eve, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama

X'mas Art Party by 200 Artists, Guardian Garden, Tokyo

10 Artists: Contemporary Japanese Art of the 1980s-90s, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum

Yayoi Kusama-Collage 1952-83, Nabis Gallery, Tokyo

The World of Box ATM, Contemporary Art Gallery, Mito Art, Ibaraki

The 2nd Tokyo Art Expo 1991, The Tokyo International Trade Center, Harumi

Contemporary Art in Monochrome : from the Museum Collection, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum

Landscape into Modern Art: from the Museum Collection, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum

AERONART , Loire Castles

BOX ART OF 90, Heineken Village ,Tokyo

The Art of Collage/Assemblage from the museum collection, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum

The Silent Dialogue: Still Life in the West and Japan, Sizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art

PHARMAKON'90 Nippon Convention Center, Makuhari Messe O

Art and Vision: from Japanese Modern Art, Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Miyagi

An Aspect of Contemporary Painting: Structure of Repetition, Takamatsu City Museum of Art

Why Do Contemporary Artists Not Make Prints? Mohly Gallery, Osaka

Exhibition of New Collection from Apr.1,1986-Mar. 31,1989, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka

Art Exciting, The Museum of Modern Art ,Saitama

Print works by 12 Artists, Heineken Village, Tokyo

Original Poster Exhibition by Maison Franco, Japonaise Yurakucho Art Forum, Tokyo

KAME-ZA Shell and Vessel, Signifying Yokohama Citizens' Gallery, Yokohama

Art Kites, Mie Prefectural Museum of Art

Object: Deviated Materials, Tsukashin Hall, Osaka

Recent Acquisitions, The National Museum of Art, Osaka

Toyosaku Saito and Pointillism in Japan, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama

The Message: 83 Contemporary Japanese Painters, Sogo Museum of Art, Yokohama

Contemporary Japanese Art , Taipei Fine Arts Museum

Art: A Dialogue on Peace, Ohkurayama Memorial Hall, Yokohama

Japon des Avant Gardes 1910-1970, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

Contemporary Art Fair, Tokyo Central Museum, Tokyo

40 Years of Japanese Contemporary Art, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum

Reconstruction: Avantgarde Art in Japan,1845-1965, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK

Two Decades of Contemporary Painting: 1960-1980, Gunma Prefectural museum of Modern Art

Prints by Yayoi Kusama and Ushio Shinohara, Gallery Ho-sun, Tokyo

Trends in Contemporary Art The 1960s- Towards Diversity, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum

The 1960's - A Decade of Change in Contemporary Japanese Art , The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto

November Steps: Artists of Today, Yokohama Citizens' Gallery, Yokohama

The 1960's - A Decade of Change in Contemporary Japanese Art, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

Exhibition Yayoi Kusama & Shoichiro Ito, Transport Building,Tokyo

Weich and Plastisch/Soft Art Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland

Improbable Furniture, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

Tenth Street Days:The Co-ops of the 50s , Brata Gallery, New York, USA

Woman's Work: American Art, The Museum of the Philadelphia Civic Centre, USA

Zero-Unexecuted, Institute of the History of Arts, University of Amsterdam, Holland

Soft and Apparently Soft Sculpture, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and New York

Objecten: Made in U.S.A, Galerie Delta, Rotterdam, Holland

Aussfellung: Serielle Farmationen Studio Galerie, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

33rd Venice Biennale

The Object Transformed, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

Total-Realismus, Galerie Potsdamer, Berlin, Germany

Inner and Outer Space, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

Aktuell 65, Galerie Aktuell, Bern, Switzerland

New Eyes, Chrysler Museum of Art, Provincetown

Zero Avanguardia, Galleria del Cavallino, Venice, Italy

Recent Acquisitions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA

Zero Avanguardia, Galleria il Punto, Turin

Japanese Artists abroad Europe and America, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

Mikro Zero/Nul/Mkro nieuw realisme, Galerie Delta, Rotterdam

New Work Part 1, Green Gallery, New York, USA

Panorama van de nieuwe tendenzen, Gallery Amstel, Amsterdam, Netherlands

No Show, Gertrude Stein Gallery, New York, USA

Two-person exhibition Kusama/Onosato, Zuni Gallery, Buffalo, USA

Accrochange, Galerie A, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Tentoonstelling Nul, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

Nieuwe Tendenzen, State University Gallery, Leiden

Guy Dorekens Gallery, Antwerp

Painting and Sculpture, Gres Gallery's Chicago branch, Carnegie Institude, Pittsburgh, USA

The International Watercolor Exhibition:Twentieth Biennial, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA

Nova Gallery (Boston)

Japanese Abstraction, Gres Gallery, Washington D.C., USA

Japanese-American Woman Artist Exhibition, Riverside Museum, New York, USA

Modern Japanese Paintings, Brata Gallery, New York, USA

The International Watercolor Exhibition: 18th Biennial, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS

Yayoi Kusama: Eternity-Modernity, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha, Tokyo, Japan

Collection of Print Works, 1979 - 2004, Abe Corporation, Tokyo, Japan

kUSAMATRIX: Kusama Yayoi, exh. cat. (curated by Yayoi Kusama Studio, Kojima Yayoi, Uchida Mayumi), Mori Art Museum, Tokyo Yayoi Kusama, exh. cat., (Concepts, Eternity-Modernity: Tohru Matsumoto, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Eight Places for the Burning Soul: Hitoshi Dehara, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima; Sailing the Sea of Infinity: Hiroshi Minamishima, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto; The Place for my Soul: Akira Shibutami, Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Matsumoto

Yayoi Kusama: Arbeiten aus den Jahren 1949 bis 2003, exh. cat., Kunstverein Braunschweig, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, Germany

Yayoi Kusama, exh. cat., (curated by Xavier Douroux, Franck Gautherot, Seung-duk Kim, Pascal Pique), Le Consortium, contemporary art centre, Dijon; Maison de la culture du Japon, Paris; Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense, Denmark; Les Abattoirs, Toulouse; Artsonje Centre, Seoul; Artsonje Museum, Kyongju, Contemporary Art Series: Les presses duu réel/janvier and Studio Kusama

Laura Hoptman, Akira Tatehata, Udo Kultermann, Yayoi Kusama, Phaidon Press Limited, London

In Full Bloom: Yayoi Kusama, Years in Japan, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Tankosha Publishing Co., Ltd., Japan

Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama, 1958 - 1968, exh. cat. (Co-curated by Lynn Zelevansky and Laura Hoptman), Museum of Modern Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; The Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

Yayoi Kusama, exh. cat. (Commissioner: Akira Tatehata), Japanese Pavillion, 45^th Venice Biennale, The Japan Foundation

Yayoi Kusama: Print Works, Abe Corporation, Tokyo